Press: Government to fast-track law to block restitution of Prague Castle properties to Church

The government plans to fast-track legislation aimed at preventing a number of properties in the Prague Castle complex falling under a law on church restitution, the newspaper Právo reported on Saturday. The law will go before the Senate as the Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved. Prague’s Roman Catholic archbishopric has claimed nine buildings and 10 parcels of land at the Castle. The minister of the interior, Martin Pecina, says the Catholic Church had made a deal with the state not to seek their return.